Israeli and Palestinians, despite everything that opposes them, today share a comparable disorder in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Israel has dared to challenge his American ally by refusing to join Western sanctions against Moscow, to spare both the sensitivity of its population of Russian origin and the interests of oligarchs holding dual nationality. The attempted mediation, launched on March 5 by Prime Minister Bennett, long. And, two weeks later, President Zelensky could only intervene in front of Israeli deputies connected to Zoom because they had refused to break their parliamentary holidays to hear it in extraordinary session at the Knesset. As for the Palestinian authority, it has no more than Hamas clearly condemn the Russian aggression, maintaining the nostalgia of a world where the influence of the Kremlin could counterbalance that of the White House. This is how the Ukrainian crisis reveals profound contradictions within each of the two peoples.
Israel and the refugees … not Jewish
The Russian oligarchs who, because of their Jewish origins, were able to obtain Israeli nationality can count on the protection of their second homeland, even if they do not reside permanently. This is the well -known case of the wealthy novel Abramovitch, which has also multiplied international guarantees, until intervening alongside the Turkish authorities during the March 29 mediation between Russia and Ukraine. Less media is the billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, whose sumptuous yacht has just been seized in the Balearic and who financed the Benny Gantz start-up until 2018, the current Israeli Defense Minister. In general, these Russian-Israeli oligarchs know that their interests will be preserved in Israel, which has become a comparable sanctuary, in the Middle East, at the Emirate of Dubai alone. An additional, and non -negligible approximation factor between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The conflict in Ukraine had also aroused the expectation of a new wave of Alya, Jewish immigration to Israel, estimated at one hundred thousand, even two hundred thousand people from Ukraine as from Russia. But the majority of Jewish refugees who have fled Ukraine have so far decided to settle in Germany. After a month of conflict, Israel had attracted only fifteen thousand Ukrainian refugees, including less than a third that can claim Alya. The Bennett government has finally decided to soften its policy towards non-Jewish Ukrainians, sometimes blocked for hours when they arrived, while their foster family was hitherto supposed to pay a deposit and ensure their departure from Israel After a month. These heated debates recalled the netanyahu bids which, in 2017, accused of all the thousands of immigrants who came to illegally from Eritrea and Sudan and had only granted the status of refugee only to ten of them, preferring to expel others towards Rwanda and Uganda.
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